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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!opusc!usceast!nyikos
- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Item for Chaney's study of abortion--adult/child sex link.
- Message-ID: <nyikos.715900697@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Keywords: Nyikos failing other arguments goes for guilt by association
- Sender: usenet@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <nyikos.715043061@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Aug29.135528.22372@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <nyikos.715472754@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Sep3.165119.21400@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 21:18:17 GMT
- Lines: 96
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- In <1992Sep3.165119.21400@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
-
- >In article <nyikos.715472754@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >> In <1992Aug29.135528.22372@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
- >>
- >> >Mr Nyikos wallows in speculation to no clear purpose unless it is to
- >> >somehow imply that clinics that provide abortion services have been
- >> >bombed by their own staff for insurance purposes. This flies in
- >> >the face of the facts, which include convictions in court of some
- >> >of the bombers, all of whom are staunchly "pro-life."
- >>
- >> Just how deeply held are these pro-life beliefs? Children playing
- >> at "cops and robbers" almost never go into the harm the robbers have
- >> caused. The "robbers" are simply "the bad guys" and the ones playing
- >> cops get a big adrenaline surge from going after them and even have
- >> the "moral" satisfaction of being "the good guys" even though someone
- >> watching their play usually can't tell the good guys from the bad guys
- >> without a scorecard.
-
- >You make no response to
- >the fact that the people in these convictions admitted their
- >part in the bombings. Susan Garvin recently published a quote
- >from one of them who said it's okay to kill doctors if the
- >doctors provide abortion services. Are you now going to tell
- >us that maybe these doctors are really trying to commit suicide
- >by firing guns through their own houses from a distance of fifty
- >yrads, pausing only once to reload?
-
- First you talk about bombings, then you speak of firing guns. Just
- what did these people admit to doing?
-
- >> Now what little I have read of "The Lambs of God" [you never do identify
- >> these "pro-lifers"] leads me to believe their motivation is of this
- >> juvenile sort.
-
- >We were talking about your remarks that clinic staff were
- >burning down or bombing their own clinics.
-
- I never said they were, I just brought it up as a possibility.
-
- > I think your tactics, lies and innuendoes, are as
- >reprehensible and indicative of a lack of character as the
- >behavior of these juvenile "Lambs of God" you so disdain.
-
- Gee, now I am being charged with doing things every bit as
- reprehensible as bombing clinics and (perhaps) shooting guns
- at them. If your moral code is this bad at making distinctions,
- perhaps you are a moral nihilist at heart.
-
- >> >> >In article <nyikos.714859323@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >> >> >> In <1992Aug25.231443.21218@nas.nasa.gov> dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King) writes:
- >> >> >> > Does the fact that this doctor did bad things some how
- >> >> >> >discredit the pro-choice movement?
- >> >> >> Of course not, no more than a few crazy bombers discredit the whole
- >> >> >> pro-life movement.
-
- I'm glad this quote is still on the net. Lots of people have been
- claiming I am trying to discredit the whole pro-choice movement by
- posting what the doctor did. Some even accuse me of posting lies.
-
- >> Well, in the absence of further information, one can make educated guesses.
- >>
- >> 1. Being an abortionist can be a dehumanizing experience. Don't take my
- >> word for it, read what Magda Denes, a pro-choicer, writes about some
- >> of them in _In Necessity and Sorrow_. As one comes to see the bodily
- >> autonomy of unborn children as violable unto death, one can easily see
- >> the bodily autonomy of four-year-old children as violable unto carnal
- >> knowledge. [My dose of medieval English for the day.]
-
- >In other words, you have no facts, and just want to construct
- >a speculative support structure for your sleaze tactics.
-
- No more speculative than most of the stuff I read on talk.abortion.
-
- >> 2. Abortion is part and parcel of the quality-of-life ethic, which sees
- >> the worth of human beings according to how much they are wanted, or
- >> appreciated, or loved by others.
-
- >This is a complete misrepresentation of the pro-choice position,
-
- Of your pro-choice position, maybe. Pro-choice is a much bigger tent
- than most people in talk.abortion seem to realize. Ditto for pro-life.
-
- >and as such does not even deserve a response. You can kick all
- >the strawmen down that you please. I can easily say that,
- >rather than having real concerns, the anti-abortion movement
- >is simply part and parcel of the anti-woman, control-freak
- >attitude that wants to enslave all people to one ideology and
- >one point of view and prohibit human freedom.
-
- This is NARAL propaganda. Item 2. is based on lots of things lots
- of pro-choicers have said. Stay tuned.
-
- Peter Nyikos
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